Presumably it matters because if it was a GoF research leak, we either need to suspend GoF research or increase security at labs doing it. Is it going to be the

Presumably it matters because if it was a GoF research leak, we either need to suspend GoF research or increase security at labs doing it. Is it going to be the GoF researchers who call for a moratorium on GoF research? Possibly but there is a clear conflict of interest there. A powered up virus escaping from a lab is almost definitionally not a natural event